I love Harry Potter because of the impact it had on me as a kid. Being a kid can be tough sometimes ― there were times when I felt weird and that I didn’t belong to any circle of friends, and reading the books was a way to escape that and feel like I did belong

When Hubler – who’s been teaching for four years to seventh and eighth grade students at his middle school – found out he’d be moving to a new classroom, he decided to remodel his new settings based on one of his and his students’, favourite books.

As I grew up, I became more skilled in socialising and developed stronger connections with friends, but the lessons in the books about acceptance, loyalty, and integrity stayed with me and inform a lot of the philosophy I have in my approach to teaching and how I interact with my students.

Hubler, who had already infused some Harry Potter themes in his old classroom, decided to go even bigger when he found out he was going to get a much larger classroom.

He brought over his personal collection of Potter merchandise to decorate his new digs and spent over a month working on the room’s decor to make it special for his students.

He revealed:

Many of the supplies were purchased at hardware stores or online and the expenses were out of pocket, but I found creative ways to keep the costs down by looking for things second hand at garage sales and on Facebook’s marketplace.